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The state’s newest oil and gas advocacy group, Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) is planning for the long haul: A multi-year campaign to inform the public about the industry, its practices and how its products are used — and about fracking.

Or, put another way, CRED (website here) is not a flash in the pan that will disappear after the Nov. 5 election.

That election includes ballot issues in a handful of Front Range cities that call for a ban on hydraulic fracturing within their city limits.

“This is a multi-year effort and we have a long road ahead — irrespective of what happens in [the elections in] 2013, or 2014 or 2015,” said Robin Olsen, a Denver-based spokeswoman for Anadarko, which employs about 1,300 people in the state.

I talked about CRED Wednesday with Olsen; Jon Ekstrom, a Denver-based spokesman for Noble, which employs about 1,000 people in the state; and Jon Haubert, who doubles as a spokesperson for CRED and for Denver’s Western Energy Alliance, an oil and gas trade group whose members work in the Rocky Mountain region.

Anadarko and Noble are each investing about $1.7 billion on Colorado operations this year — and Noble has plans to invest $10 billion over five years.

Cathy Proctor covers energy, the environment and transportation for the Denver Business Journal and edits the weekly "Energy Inc." newsletter. Phone: 303-803-9233. Subscribe to the Energy Inc. newsletter

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